Alejandro Gaviria

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe is a Colombian economist and engineer, who served as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia from 2012 to 2018. He is currently Rector of the University of Los Andes (Colombia). He was Dean of the School of Economics at University of los Andes in 2006, until his appointment as Minister in 2012. Prior to his academic career, Gaviria served as Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia, as well as Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Higher Education and Development (Fedesarrollo), a private non-profit policy research centre, and as a Researcher at the Inter-American Development Bank. A published author of several books and scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, in 2019 he was appointed Rector of University of the Andes for a four-year period.